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Scientific Programming
Volume 2016, Article ID 8038045, 10 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/8038045
Research Article

Acquisition Pricing and Inventory Decisions on Dual-Source Spare-Part System with Final Production and Remanufacturing

Yancong Zhou,1 Xudong Guo,2 and Xiaochen Sun3

1School of Information Engineering, Tianjin University of Commerce, Tianjin 300134, China
2Tourism and Historical Culture College, Zhaoqing University, Zhaoqing 526061, China
3Department of Mathematics, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China

Received 27 March 2016; Accepted 10 May 2016

Academic Editor: Guo Chen

Copyright © 2016 Yancong Zhou et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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